Stories that tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart.For the past twenty years, Walker Moore's popular Rite of Passage column in the Oklahoma Baptist Messenger has delighted thousands of readers every week. This endearing collection pulls together some of his best. From unexpected lessons on the international mission field to fond (and funny) childhood memories, the homespun humor and wisdom of Chicken Lips, Snake Legs, & Jesus will leave you laughing—and longing for more.

Stories that tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart.Following the wild success of Chicken Lips, Snake Legs, & Jesus, Walker Moore has pulled together a second heaping helping of laughter and hope. Inside Out & Backwards draws on Walker's adventures across the globe, spiced with his unique blend of homespun humor and wisdom. His stories of mishaps in the gym to vacations "somewhere" in America will leave you with a smile and a prayer.

Rite of Passage Parenting Workbook teaches parents how to build into their children's lives the essential experiences every child needs: (1) an authentic Rite of Passage, (2) Significant Tasks, (3) Logical Consequences, and (4) Grace Deposits from parents, grandparents, and other caring adults. Writing from years of experience as a minister, family speaker, youth culture specialist, and father, Walker Moore shows parents how to guide their kids to become capable, responsible, self...

You matter to God. Do you live like you believe it? Satan's deceptive tactics block most Christians from the live God intended. We hide behind rules, masks, and manipulation. We preach the gospel, but our lives proclaim destruction. Escape the Lie provides answers for the deep-seated problem known as the Orphan Heart. Through powerful, biblical teaching and compelling true-life examples, Walker Moore unlocks the door to help you escape the wounds of the past and move into abundant life. Th...

This month, Letty sees more than she believes, Matt gets curious, Amber gets hitched-up, and Sam goes for a ride.

Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy – an environment emphasizing publication, narrow ...

This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.The letters in Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War provide valuable firsthand accounts of both battlefronts and the home front, sharing rich details about daily life as well as evolving attitudes toward the war. As the men of service age from each family join the Confederate ranks, they begin writing from military camps in...

One nation, under God. Religious liberty isn’t a principle for Americans alone, though it certainly has played an important role in the history of the United States. Religious liberty is a matter of authority and allegiance for people of every land. To whom one owes ultimate allegiance is a matter of the conscience, and one that should be protected in every nation.But what if religious liberty gives way, and church’s are faced with the difficult decision between allegiance to their country...

The pro-life moment didn’t begin in the 1960s, but in the Garden. Abortion has been a divisive issue in American culture since the sexual revolution. Yet the Bible is an unapologetic defender of human dignity. Moreover, Christians have always cared for the unborn, the orphan, and the least among us. The time is now for this generation to reaffirm what believers have always believed: everybody is created in the image of God. So, what now? Editors Russell Moore and Andrew T. Walker of the Et...

In the kingdom of God, it is not us against them. The problem of racism stretches back as far humanity’s origin in the book of Genesis. Brother pitted against brother, tribe against tribe––people have warred against one another, fueled by contempt for racial differences. Yet the gospel is a message of reconciliation. The kingdom of God is us reconciled to one another. Editors Russell Moore and Andrew T. Walker of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) assemble leading voices to...

We live in a society of broken homes. Having parents in the home doesn’t mean that parenting is actually happening. Parenting is a God-given task that ensures young children are protected and nurtured into maturity in the fear and admonition of the Lord. But America and the church faces a crisis of parenting: detached or absentee fathers, single mothers, and grandparents raising the next generation. What’s more, how should parents actually parent? And what does the gospel have to say to th...

If marriage is a picture of Christ and the Church, our homes should look like the gospel. While the culture has never been more confused about the definition of what marriage is, those who are married have never been more hopeless about how marriage should be lived. The times have never been more crucial for digging deeper, past the definition of marriage to the structure of marriage, the blessings of marriage, and the opportunity for living out the image of the gospel that’s embodied with...